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- VPNs Make It Safer to Use the Internet. Governments Are Trying to Ban Them. [defendvpns.com]
Join Fight for the Future's VPN day of action today! Sign their open letter to world governments asking leaders to stop restrictions and bans of VPNs.
"Recent 'Age Verification' laws are accelerating the discussion of banning or restricting VPN usage, in order to force all Internet users to be surveilled under these draconian measures that, clearly, are having unintended consequences and not making the Internet a safer place. Online surveillance and censorship has a huge chilling effect on our freedoms, particularly the freedoms of traditionally marginalized people."
- TikTok Collected Sensitive Personal Data on 'A Large Number of Canadian Children,' Privacy Commissioner Says [reuters.com]
An investigation from four Canadian privacy watchdogs uncovered that "TikTok removes approximately 500,000 underage users from the platform each year. Where these children were engaging with the platform before being removed, TikTok was already collecting, inferring and using information about them to serve them targeted ads and recommend tailored content to them."
Read the full report from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne, along with his provincial counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia.
- Should 'Surveillance Pricing' Be Banned? [npr.org]
Companies collect and sell your data online, which can be used to target you with personalized ads. But did you know this same technology used to power advertising can also be used to power pricing as well?
"For instance, in 2012, The Wall Street Journal found companies like Staples and Office Depot were showing different customers different prices for the same product. And they did that based on things like their location and browsing history." Yikes.
This episode of The Indicator from Planet Money, hosted by Adrian Ma and Darian Woods, explores both sides of the argument regarding regulation of surveillance pricing.
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